#kidfics

[old-wild-child]

As someone who took AP psychology in high school, and considered continuing those studies in college so I could go to med school for child psychiatry, kidfics are my favorite genre of fanfictions. I love reading about how the life experiences of my favorite characters shape/play a part in raising a child. However, I need a way to say “I love kidfics” without sounding like a wannabe tradwife with the “A family isn’t complete without children!!” ideology way that republiKlans love to parade around

[maiabilis]

soukoku kidfics could fix me i think

[ao3polls]

Do you consider a "Kidfic" a fic where the main characters are kids or where the main characters have kids?

Are Kids

Have Kids

A unseen 3rd option

Voting ended onSep 8, 2024

[hlficlibrary]

hi hello i love you

i wanted to ask if there's some sort of index with your recs or if there's a tag i can look for since im sure kid fics recs have been asked before. if not; please recommend me some kid fics hopefully where the kids are between the ages 0 and 5 give or take, i don't mind if it's single dad louis or single dad harry.

please and thank youuuuu

Hi, anon! You're so very welcome!

Okay, so if you look at the pinned post, you can pretty much find everything organized there.

Under "Browse the catalog" you'll find this:

Search by HL fic tags here

And under "AU" you can click on "Kid Fics" and everything with that tag will come up.

Also, under "Links" you'll find this:

✤ Category Fic Recs

And that has all the main fic recs I've done monthly for this blog. One of the recs is indeed a kid fic rec...

✤ Kid Fics

Since this is one of the main recs, it's got a bunch on there and not just the few you'd find on one of the Mini Fic Recs. So let me poke around on there and find a few that I know have younger kids in them...

Enchanted by @brightgolden

“My close friends usually call me H,” Harry mumbles suddenly after Louis wraps up his story.

That’s unexpected. “Are you telling me I’m your close friend now?” Louis quips, squinting his eyes at Harry.

OR Where Louis finally meets his neighbour. After a few conversations, he begins to realise he is too weak to resist the charms of the new mother and his six month old daughter.

The Baby Whisperer by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

Harry’s newborn baby is having trouble sleeping and nothing he does seems to work. Tired and alone and at his wits end, Harry is at a loss until a new neighbour arrives to turn his world upside down.

OR the one where being neighbourly takes on a whole new meaning.

Bitter Ends Turn Sweet by @allwaswell16

It had been four years since Harry first heard the song his ex wrote about him and far longer since they broke up. He forgave Louis long ago, and now his life was focused on his career, his family, and especially his son, Max. But Louis was back in Chicago, after all this time, and he’s not an easy man to ignore.

Or a songfic inspired by the song Chicago

Chasing, Searching, Dreaming by @parmahamlarrie

Everyone is chasing, searching, dreaming of their soulmate.

Harry has known who his soulmate is since he was twenty years old, and ever since, he has been waiting for Louis to be ready for him. The unexpected passing of Louis' mum, and the fact that now he is the guardian of his twin two-year-old little siblings, just means that Harry is going to have to wait a bit longer.

A soulmate AU full of cute kids, house building, therapy, and a lot of dreaming.

[neptoons1998]

I'm off today so you know that means I'm going to be posting a lot of Shuriri fics and some attoye fics so be ready for tonight!

[danpuff-ao3]

Snarry Recs: Family Fics!

Y'all know I love me some Snarry. And there is a special place in my heart for kidfics. Real life childrearing is not for me, but in a story?? Heck yes. Bring it on. I'll take it fun and sweet, fraught and chaotic, or a solid mix of both, I don't care. I just want my beloved OTP working together to build a home, a family, and a life together. It just does things for me.

So here are a few of those good ole kidfics that I adore. No mpreg, though...that's another list for another day!

A Certain Kind of Fool

Rated E. 38k words.

For Severus, everything changes when Harry and his children move into Hogwarts. Little Albus Severus has taken a liking to him and it seems Harry Potter has a secret.

Gleanings

Rated E. 26k words.

Severus Snape hates children and werewolves - so why would he want to adopt a lycanthropic Teddy Lupin? Harry discovers the answer to this, and also that the Wizarding World does not readily accept same-sex couples. AU in that Severus has survived, but otherwise mostly DH compliant although EWE.

Arse Over Tit

Rated E. 4k words.

Severus' relationship with Harry is so close to being perfect -- he's won Harry's heart, practices potions with Al, and has tea parties with Lily. And then there's James...

Love in the Potter-Snape Household

Rated T. 500 words.

Teddy is at an impressionable age. Severus and Harry adjust.

Made-Up Lullaby #43

Rated E. 20k words.

People who say they sleep like a baby don't usually have one.

Little Monkeys

Rated T. 15k words.

"There might be a chance that maybe, perhaps, Severus went too far this whole ‘exile far away from the Wizarding World’ thing. Because however he tries to frame it, it comes down to this: after nine years of being completely alone, the first time he stays with another person, he’s plotting to steal said person’s children."

6 Lessons From a Dead Man

Not Rated. 8k words.

Harry Potter put himself in a vulnerable position on Severus’ birthday. So, naturally, Severus took advantage.

Birds of a Feather

Rated E. 115k words.

After the war is won, Harry keeps visiting a comatose Severus Snape at St. Mungo’s. 

A story about two orphans and one recuperating Potions Master finding love and family.

Needs Must (series)

Rated E. Ongoing. Currently: 110k words.

After Ginny Potter dies suddenly, Severus Snape is among those called in to help Potter juggle his new reality. As the other helpers fade away, a desperate and penniless Severus agrees to become the regular caregiver to Potter's three young children. But Severus finds that the Potter household is not the sunshine and roses he'd imagined.

Three Firsts and One Forever

Rated T. 6k words.

More than thirty years after falling in love with Severus, Harry tells his granddaughter about some important firsts in their lives.

[tradelouisemark]

Hate to be that person but does anyone know any good JayTim fics where they have kids?

[quintisqueen-blog]

So, you decided to write a fanfiction with your favorite female character having a kid. Thank you very much. I’m a sucker for kidfic. However, please consider doing a bit of research into the whole pregnancy and early infancy thing. Or even childhood development.

A few things that I’ve read over the years, and often enough or just so plain wrong that it stuck in my mind : 

- Morning sickness, and all other pregnancy symptoms do not happen within a week of having sex. If you character feel nauseous, weak and tired a week after having sex with whoever you ship her with, she’s more likely has the flu. 

- Labour take more than 5 minutes. And it won’t take two whole days. At some point, doctors do something about it, it becomes dangerous for mother and child.

- Afterbirth exists. You don’t need to describe it, nor even mention it to be honest. But don’t write like it’s just a few minutes between the birth and the mother wheeled up in her room.

- No woman will be happy with their whole family, friend and neighbors and their dog visiting her within an hour of giving birth. Think about it. You’re exhausted, still in pain,  overly emotional, just met your new kid, high on drugs most of the time. Would you really want so many people crowding your room?

- Babies do not talk when they’re 3 months old. Nope, not even just “mama” or “dada”.

- Also they don’t walk at 5 months.

- Or eat a whole steak by 7 months. (Yes I still wonder about that one and I read it years ago).

- Basically read about “baby milestones” and take your pick between the range they give. If you want to portray the kid as precocious, use the earliest.

- No one sane  has ever hired a babysitter because they were cooking diner while baby was napping in the next room. Maybe they have a full-time nanny, but they don’t pay the neighbor girl 20 bucks for that.

- I don’t care how smart they are, and who raised them, but no 4 years old would know 4 languages, how to diffuse a bomb, fire 5 differents guns and riffles, and control their fear and emotions and explain something science (don’t remember what) to Tony Stark. Some things have to be learn and take training, you know.  - I know it seems cool and validating and all, but a 14 years old telling a teacher to fuck off won’t be highed five by the principal.

- No parent will be good parents AND letting their 6 years old drink a beer. It’s one or the other. Take your pick. I’m not a parent so I’m sure I missed a lot of thing. So people please add to this!